School Nurses Handbook
APNA developed this handbook to support school nurses. It serves as a comprehensive tool, guiding them in best practice guidelines, evidence-based practices and providing essential resources.
Diabetes Qualified - Diabetes in Practice for Nurses
An online course for nurses to refresh and expand their diabetes knowledge and enhance the care they provide to people living with diabetes. CPD Hours: 12 hours.
Jean Hailes for Women's Health - Introduction to women's health for nurses
This course provides nurses with foundational knowledge about women’s health and nursing in the women’s health context. We recommend nurses complete this course first before progressing to other Jean Hailes courses for nurses. CPD hours: 0.5 CPD hours.
Jean Hailes for Women's Health - Understanding female reproductive anatomy and hormones for nurses
This course aims to help nurses improve their fundamental knowledge and understanding of female reproductive anatomy and sex hormones. CPD hours: 0.5 CPD hours.
Jean Hailes for Women's Health - Understanding periods and the menstrual cycle - for nurses and midwives
This course aims to help nurses improve their knowledge and understanding of periods and the menstrual cycle, including menstrual conditions. CPD hours: 0.5 CPD hours.
ASCIA - ASCIA Anaphylaxis e-training for Health Professionals
Boost your skills with free, evidence-based online learning. Complete ASCIA’s Anaphylaxis e-training for health professionals course today. CPD hours: 1.5 hours.
Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer - National Cervical Screening Program eLearning Modules Bundle
This series of five self-paced, interactive eLearning modules will give you the confidence to support your patients to participate in cervical screening and follow-up care, help them make an informed choice about how they screen, and contribute to the elimination of cervical cancer in Australia. CPD hours: 8.5 hours.
Simplicity Medical Training - Understanding Anaphylaxis for Healthcare Professionals (Support Staff)
This course is designed for healthcare professionals who have a supporting role in the management of a patient with anaphylaxis. It gives a comprehensive understanding of what is happening and how to best assist. CPD hours: 6 hours.
Cancer Council Victoria - Vapes: Considerations for Health Professionals
Vapes: Considerations for Health Professionals, a new online module, is now available to provide information on using vapes for smoking cessation in the new regulatory environment, and on vaping cessation. CPD hours: 1.5 hours.
Lung Foundation Australia - Lung Cancer Survivorship
The Survivorship eLearning module equips nurses with essential knowledge and tools to deliver evidence-based survivorship care for lung cancer patients, focusing on quality of life, support, and the nurse's key role. CPD hours: 2 hours.
Lung Foundation Australia - A Stepwise Approach to Managing COPD to Prevent Exacerbations
Enrol now to learn about the management of COPD, focusing on individualised care plans and the prevention of exacerbations. CPD hours: 1 hours.
Lung Foundation Australia - The National Lung Cancer Screening Program Health Workforce Education
In partnership with the Australian Government and NACCHO, Lung Foundation Australia invites primary healthcare professionals to complete CPD-accredited modules on eligibility, screening processes, and participant support for lung cancer screening. CPD hours: 3.5 hours.
Monash University - Chronic Wound Consumables Scheme Best Practice Wound Care: Nursing
Monash University has designed a freely available, one hour online training module focused on: wound assessment, wound management and use of the consumables ordering portal. Modules have been designed and tailored for each professional group, in partnership with academics and clinical experts in the field. CPD hours: 1 hour.
Karitane - Breast and Bottle Feeding Basics
By attending this one-hour webinar, you will learn to assess growth and development using specific growth charts in the early years and develop effective communication and partnership skills when working with parents and carers. CPD hours: 1.
University of Sydney - Metabolic-dysfunction Associated Fatty Liver Disease
This online, self-paced, case-based short (4hr) course is tailored for primary care nurses to enhance knowledge in identifying at-risk and managing patients with Metabolic-dysfunction Associated Fatty Liver Disease in Australia. CPD hours: 4 hours.
University of Sydney - Eating Disorders for Primary Health Nurses
This course will provide Primary Health Nurses with knowledge and tools in prevention, identification, screening, and management of patients with eating disorders. Nurses will develop strategies and confidence in talking to and supporting people with eating disorders, awareness of at risk groups and the stigma that is associated with these illnesses. They will also learn about the relevant guidelines available that inform the evidenced based treatment of eating disorders in Australia. CPD hours: 15 hours.
Jean Hailes - Understanding Menopause (for nurses and midwives)
This course is designed to help nurses and midwives improve their understanding of menopause. It covers the difference between perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause and the role nurses and midwives have in menopause management. CPD hours: 1 hour.
Kineo - Code of Conduct for Aged Care Workers
This course equips aged care workers with the knowledge to apply the Code of Conduct, ensuring safety, dignity, and well-being of elderly individuals in residential and home care settings.
Lung Foundation - COPD Measure and Specialist Referral
Lung Foundation Australia has developed a free self-paced eLearning education package focused on identifying and diagnosing people with COPD. The eLearning covers identifying people at risk of COPD, spirometry interpretation, referrals to specialists and more. CPD hours: 1.5 hours.
HealthCert - Obesity and Its Management
This course explores nursing roles in obesity management, focusing on prevention, lifestyle counselling, medications, and bariatric surgery, emphasizing education, health literacy, and sustained patient collaboration for effective care. CPD hours: 5 hours.
HealthCert - Asthma and Other Respiratory Conditions in Children and Adolescents
This comprehensive paediatric respiratory course is designed to help healthcare professionals identify and manage common respiratory conditions in children and adolescents. You'll also learn how to manage acute asthma, croup, bronchiolitis, and CAP. CPD hours: 5 hours.
HealthCert - Diabetes Mellitus
This course covers diabetes mellitus, including diagnosis, glycaemic control, patient education, and comprehensive management strategies addressing diet, lifestyle, weight, renal function, comorbidities, and medical glycaemia management. CPD hours: 6 hours.
HealthCert - Elder Abuse
This course covers elder abuse, including prevalence, signs, injuries, differential diagnoses, assessment, nurse roles, risk factors, and support services, with focus on physical, emotional, sexual, and neglect-related harm. CPD hours: 5 hours.
Lung Foundation - Diagnosis of Breathlessness
The eLearning introduces the breathlessness checklist and shared-care tool. It also provides practical self-management advice for patients, and ongoing resources and support. CPD hours: 3 hours.
HealthCert - Men's Cases: Lifestyle Choices and the Impact on Health and Wellbeing
This course examines the health impacts of men’s lifestyle choices, such as smoking, alcohol, obesity, and inactivity. It provides prevention strategies, case studies, and tools for supporting positive lifestyle changes in patients. CPD hours: 5 hours.
BEAT Bladder Cancer Australia - Bladder Cancer
Bladder Cancer – free, online modular 3-hour education program targeted specifically for primary healthcare nurses. Video & information sheet learning following the patient journey: Symptoms – Diagnosis – Treatment – Support. Includes key takeaway points. CPD hours: 3 hours.
AGPAL - Yana, heart and Stroke Healing
Yana offers five engaging eLearning modules to support the frontline health workforce in providing culturally safe care, with a focus on the recovery and management of heart disease and stroke. CPD hours: 10 hours.
Praxhub - Bronchiolitis
Important updates on changing epidemiology and presentations of bronchiolitis in primary care. Including at-risk children, evidence-based management, and emerging options for mitigating effects in the community. CPD hours: 0.5 hours.
Praxhub - The many guises of infant & pre-schooler cough
Understand the many and varied types and causes of both acute and chronic cough in pre-school aged children.
Praxhub - The cough that sometimes kills: An update on RSV for GPs and paediatricians
Important insights into the evolving epidemiology of RSV in Australia including emerging treatments and preventative measures. CPD hours: 1.5 hours
Praxhub - Understanding RSV
Discover an effective framework for timely identification and care direction, based on the symptoms of the child, and their at-risk characteristics. CPD hours: 0.5 hours.
HealthCert - Depression in the Elderly
This course offers an understanding of depression and suicide risk in older people and designed to equip nurses with the necessary knowledge and skills for providing effective care. CPD hours: 6 hours.
Saged - Medical Cannabis and Conditions Affecting Intersex and Assigned Female At Birth People
This course for nurses explores medical cannabis as a potential treatment for under-recognised conditions affecting people assigned female at birth and intersex individuals, including endometriosis, PCOS, PMDD, and menopause. CPD hours: 5.5 hours.
Centre for Culture Ethnicity and Health - Introduction to Cultural Competence Suite
The Introduction to Cultural Competence BUNDLE 3 gives you knowledge and skills to work with people from any culture or language group. You’ll learn skills to reduce misunderstandings caused by culture or language and then practice these skills through simulated activities. The suite gives you a framework to understand Australian cultural diversity. It sets a clear, positive agenda for how you can create a workplace that’s great for refugees and migrants. You'll also go in-depth on how to use interpreters and translations effectively. CPD hours: 2.5 hours.
Spirometry Training Company - Spirometry Training
These comprehensive courses feature a combination of engaging videos, interactive exercises, quizzes, a practical workshop and expert guidance, ensuring you develop a solid understanding of the foundational concepts that underpin quality spirometry. CPD hours: 10 hours.
Saged - Tailoring Cannabis Treatment: Consider Prior Cannabis Exposure for Nurses
Improve patient care in medical cannabis treatment by considering prior cannabis exposure. Learn about cannabis interactions, identifiers, and safe treatment recommendations. CPD hours: 6 hours.
ASHM - Sexual Health: Management & Care for Nurses and Midwives
This course helps nurses, midwives, and sexual health workers understand and manage STIs, HIV, and hepatitis B, fostering confidence in proactive, practical, and evidence-based health care. CPD hours: 9.5 hours.
ASHM - STIs and BBVs for Nurses and Midwives
This course has been developed to provide primary health care nurses and midwives with an understanding of the most common STIs and BBVs, including epidemiology, clinical presentation, and testing. CPD hours: 2 hours.
Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer: Cervical Screening, HPV and Self-Collection: Clinical Education Course
The Cervical Screening, HPV and Self-collection online course aims to equip healthcare providers with the knowledge and skills required to support their patients to make an informed cervical screening choice. CPD hours: 6 hours.
Arterial Education - Trust your gut - Identifying upper gastrointestinal cancers in general practice
Address the low survival rates of upper GI cancers with this activity focussing on identifying non-specific symptoms and facilitating the two-week recommended referral time for specialist investigation and intervention. CPD hours: 1 hour.
Karitane - Talking with families about healthy growth and development
By attending this 1 hour webinar you will learn to assess growth and development using specific growth charts in the early years and develop effective communication/ partnership skills when working with parents/carers. CPD hours: 1 hour.
SA Dental - Better Oral Health in Residential Care for Nurses
This course provides an understanding of evidence-based oral health care in aged care, including implementation of four key oral health processes: assessment, care planning, daily care and initiating a dental referral. CPD hour: 3 hours.
Kineo - Reporting Abuse and Serious Incidents in Home and Community Aged Care Services
Consumers need to be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. Legislation changes have updated the reporting requirements for all workers in Australian home and community aged care environments. This course covers these requirements, meeting the new legislative need and helping provide person-centred care to all consumers. CPD hours: 1 hour & 5 minutes.
Kineo - Reporting Abuse and Serious Incidents in Residential Aged Care
In 2021, amendments to the Aged Care Act 1997 were passed, bringing into effect the Serious Incident Response Scheme (or SIRS). This course has been developed to provide an understanding of how to identify, report and respond to the abuse of older people who are in a care relationship. CPD hours: 50 minutes.
Kineo - Safe Medication Management Including IV Therapy
The course is designed for qualified nurses and midwives whose scope of practice includes the administration of medications and intravenous (IV) therapy. The safe administration of medication is a crucial skill and key professional development in healthcare. This course provides suitably qualified nurses and midwives with an understanding of best practice for safe medication management, medication administration and medication calculation. CPD hours: 1 hour.
Kineo - Safe Medication Management
The course is designed for qualified nurses and midwives whose scope of practice does not include the administration intravenous (IV) therapy medication. The safe administration of medication is a crucial skill and key professional development in healthcare. This course provides suitably qualified nurses and midwives with an understanding of best practice for safe medication management, medication administration and medication calculation. CPD hours: 50 minutes.